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The Taoiseach has defended the State’s €7m legal bill in the €14bn Apple tax case insisting Ireland must defend its international reputation from suggestions it’s a tax haven.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says he has “no doubt at all” a number of countries will lay claim to parts of the €14bn Ireland collected in back taxes from Apple if the Government were to lose the legal appeal it launched against the EU almost three years ago.

Apple has paid the full €13bn owed in taxes to the Irish government.

Electronics giant Apple has paid €1.5bn into an escrow account set up by the Government to retain the €13bn in disputed taxes the company owes Ireland.

Apple has repaid its first instalment of the alleged State aid it received.

Famous for the Apple and Ireland tax ruling, Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition boss, is tipped to be Commission head, says Ronan Dunne.

Apple's €13bn Irish tax bill will be paid this year, the finance minister said.

Spending by the Government on its legal appeal against the EU, that Apple must repay Ireland at least €13bn in back taxes, resulted in payments by the Department of Finance to consultants topping €2.6m last year.

Apple’s tax bill in Ireland could increase by an additional €9bn.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said the cost to the State in recovering the €13bn tax bill from Apple is €2m, writes Gordon Deegan.

The Finance Minister expects Apple to start paying €13bn in owed taxes early next year.

About a hundred activists occupied an Apple store in Paris - demanding the US technology giant pay billions of euros the EU says it owes in back taxes.

There is “no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow” if Ireland sides with the European Commission and demands that Apple hands over €13.6bn in unpaid taxes, because other EU nations will be entitled to “go after” the fund.

Latest:The Taoiseach has said that referring Ireland to the European Court of Justice is "unnecessary" and "unwarranted".

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Technology giant Apple has again rejected an invitation to attend an Oireachtas committee and answer questions over an alleged €13bn in unpaid taxes owed to Ireland.

Ireland’s appeal on the €13bn Apple case could take four years, according to Finance Minister Michael Noonan and he also believes the firm pays insufficient tax around the globe.

The finance minister has said a European ruling that Apple owes the country €13bn in unpaid taxes is a mix of tax law and politics.

Michael Noonan has launched a new attack on the European Commission over the Apple tax ruling - saying it is driven by a mixture of "law and politics".

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The majority of €13bn taxes owed by technology giant Apple is due to Ireland, the EU competition commissioner says. 

Apple boss Tim Cook has been accused of snubbing the Dáil after refusing to attend hearings on a €13bn tax bill with which the company was hit.

Phone giant Apple and tax will likely loom large next year, but not in a way that some might suspect.

Your questions on the Apple tax ruling answered.  

The Department of Finance was wrong to claim the European Commission misinterpreted Irish tax laws over the Apple tax scandal, a minister has conceded yesterday.

A senior Government minister has said the Department of Finance was wrong to claim last night the European Commission has misinterpreted Irish tax laws over the Apple tax scandal, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

The European Commission has just published the full details of its ruling that Apple owes Ireland €13bn in back taxes.

The European Commission has been accused of trying to rewrite Irish tax rules and of wrongly interpreting laws in a strongly worded defence by the Government on whether Apple received €13bn in state aid.

The Government has restated its “profound disagreement” with the European Commission’s analysis which concluded Ireland gave Apple €13bn worth of State Aid. As a result, Ireland is now seeking an annulment of the decision.

The Government's appeal of the Apple tax ruling will be lodged in the European Courts today.

Enda Kenny has denied that Ireland could face hundreds more tax investigations following the Apple ruling.

The head of Revenue has thrown Ireland into a fresh Apple legal row, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

Legal costs fighting the EU’s investigation into Apple’s taxes have so far cost the State over €1m, a figure which will rise in the coming years with Ireland’s appeal over the case.